30-Day Coding Challenge Extras

Makeup Day 4 — Challenge Completed!

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It’s been almost a week since I completed my 30-day coding challenge. Unfortunately, I disappeared from Medium these past few days without writing my last report. So, here it is:

Report for Makeup Day 4

On my last makeup day for coding, I simply played around with functions, parameters,arguments, and the *args keyword.

Talking about the *args, it’s a keyword that allows a Python function to accept an unspecified number of arguments, like this:

def my_function(*args):
    for arg in args:
        print(arg)

my_function(1, 2, 3, 'hello')

'''
OUTPUT:
1
2
3
hello
'''

My makeup day 4 wasn’t action-packed as I didn’t discover anything new. Despite that, the fact I opened my IDE and wrote some functions made it a successful coding day.

With that, I can say:

My 30-Day Coding Challenge is Completed!

Here’s a summary of my journey:

• Day 1: I planned and reviewed a random word generator
• Day 2: I improved my first Python project
• Days 3 & 4: I Faced external factors that affected my progress
• Day 5: Discovered the floor division operator
• Day 6: Discovered a string method
• Days 7 & 8: Goofing off by writing 2 scripts
• Day 9: Looking at old scripts
• Days 10 & 11: I experienced my first setback
• Days 12 & 13: Discovered some escape characters
• Days 14 & 15: Highlight on slicing
• Days 16 & 17: More Python hacks
• Days 18, 19, & 20: Highlight on sets and setbacks
• Days 21, 22, & 23: Highlight on bools
• Days 24, 25, & 26: Fell ill
• Days 27, 28, & 29: Highlight on break statement
• Day 30: I met a turtle
• Makeup Days 1, 2, & 3: Highlight on nested loops and ternary operator
• Makeup Day 4: Highlight on *args keyword and summary of previous days.

While I didn’t achieve as much as I wanted in my challenge, coding consistently for days really helped my progress and habit. Thanks to this, I have several hacks stored in my coding brain.

My challenge may be over but my learning journey isn’t. Thanks for reading till this point and see you soon…